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lliould be ^iven to the cows while thev are frefli and 

 firm, for all 'food when grown potrid and corrupted 

 is iinwholfome, and doubtlefs would affcdl the juices 

 of the animals that cat it. 



Of all the articles we have mentioned, or that is 

 yet known, perhaps very few can equal, and none 

 jcxcel the Potatge, The ineftimable value of this 

 root is hardly to be conceived. It is not only an 

 almoft conftant difh in great and opulent families, 

 but in times of fcarcity and dearnefs, the poor are 

 almoft wholly fubfiftcd by it. There are many 

 poor families in this neighbourhood, who the laft 

 winter ate them three times a day With a little fait, 

 without a morfelof meat or bread with them. It is 

 true they have been long in ufe for the food of man, 

 but it is of late date that they have been extenfively 

 cultivated for the feed of cattle; and even now, I am 

 pretty clearly of opinion, that if they were much more 

 generally cultivated than they have hitherto been, 

 the farmer would find his account in it, efpecially 

 where a fubftitute is much wanted in the winter and 

 fpring feafbns for the fupport of his cattle. 



Hogs- are immoderately fond of potatoes, and will 

 live entirely upon them till they are fit to put up a 

 fattening for pork or bacon; and then, boiled and 

 ^nixcd with barley or peafe meal, they fat them 



fpeedily 



